Author: jplucas

It’s about this time every year, when thousands of area students get fed up with all the snow and ice, and start lining up for warm weather vacations.

“When I found this opportunity, I knew I had the money to go and I really wanted to go,” said Casey Bilyeu, UW sophomore.

Bilyeu is taking advantage of a new program the school is offering, to go to a typical, warm-weather destination for a notââ?¬â??soââ?¬â??typical reason.

More and more students are giving up the sun and surf for a hammer and nails…
They’re called alternative spring breaks, and they are anything but a relaxing vacation. Still for the students who choose them, they say there’s nothing else they’d rather do.

MADISON, Wis. — Spring break starts Friday for UW Madison students.

While many students will be heading for warmer temperatures and sunshine, many are also heading to work.

MADISON, Wis. – Some Wisconsin college students are heading south for spring break, but not to play on the beach. They’re heading to the Gulf Coast to help people there recover from Hurricane Katrina.

More than 100 students sponsored by the environment consumer group WISPIRG will work with Habitat for Humanity to clear away homes in New Orleans March 11-19.

A group of students at the U.W. Madison received today what one man calls an unfair job advantage.

Several university students attended the First Job workshop on Sunday. The workshop teaches students how to better market themselves to prospective employers.

When he was a child, Tyler Hendricks was a big fan of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band.

ââ?¬Å?I thought the band was the coolest, and I really wanted to be part of the band when I grew up,ââ?¬Â he said.

Hendricks said he thought one could play in the band without enrolling at UW.

UW Madison students could see their tuition go down.

That’s if the Student Services Finance Committee gives the go-ahead to give them some money back.

Members of the Committee met Thursday night to talk about the issue, but decided to wait until next Wednesday to vote

A student who supervises student housing in the University of Wisconsin System has the same rights as the students being supervised.
That simple statement reached biblical proportions Thursday when System officials recommended a policy designed to resolve an issue that erupted at UW-Eau Claire last fall. A resident assistant there was told to stop leading Bible study groups in his dormitory room.

By expanding its stellar PEOPLE program to grade-schoolers, UW-Madison is giving poor and minority children an even better shot at a college education.

And for many of these youngsters, college will be a way out of poverty and a path to becoming productive citizens.

MADISON, Wis. — A national group is voicing concerns about University of Wisconsin student tuition fee money slated to fund a Catholic student organization.

The controversy centers on booklets that would be handed out on campus next year at the start of Lent, WISC-TV reported.